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The Chairperson sits at his desk in his office, getting mentally prepared for the rest of his night. He spins his chair to view the city of Twenty-One through his floor to ceiling windows that span the entire wall. The city lights of buildings and traffic with the old fort in the distance, all in plain view from the 68th floor. He presses on a flatscreen panel of his chair's armrest and all of the windows fade to black. He spun back to his desk, only concerned with a metal container the size of science textbook, an empty crystal Old Fashioned glass, and a unopened bottle of Captain's, the first of the newest batch put out this year. The other atypical desk items were of no consequence tonight.

Delighting in the fresh spiced rum aroma as he opens the bottle and filled his glass halfway. Swirling the glass, taking in more of the rum's scent, and admiring the amber gold color reflecting through the crystal. Takes a sip and lets out a sigh of pleasure after feeling the initial bite. The Chairperson places his thumb on the fingerprint scanner located at right corner on top of the container. It beeped and internal locks could be heard disengaging. He lifted the cover door open and inside it was a plain yellow folder, which had the black stamps, OD, and, For the Chairperson's Eyes Only, on it. Like the ones before it, and the others that will follow, its classified contents were prepared on the order of the Chairperson. The metal container and its contents were delivered personally by the Director of Defense, on a monthly basis.

Not in any particular order was the material gathered as the transcripts were compiled from multiple sources who are unaware that the Chairperson reads them. It was his favorite reading material for his own personal amusement. They say ghost stories are for children but I doubt they had these kinds of Ghosts in mind.

Ghosts; these soldiers are bred, raised, and trained for completion of off-the-record missions. Ghosts are clones of genetically enhanced embryos that develop in surrogate mothers. Some genetic variety is allowed, to give possibility of better genetics as well as a variety of physical characteristics, including gender. If any clone shows reduced effectiveness, it is neutralized, usually during its educational periods. From birth, they are fed into the GHOST program that consists of six levels of programming.

With the programming, they receive focused general education, or FGE, in diverse areas from multiple languages to the history of the Allied States to various piloting skills. FGE also involves physical education that includes gymnastics, acrobatics, boxing, and various martial art forms. At the age of 13, the FGE is then shifted to focused military education, or FME and the GHOST program continues. FME brings individual to legion-sized military training and know-how. Such training combines the skills of the Airborne, Rangers, SEALs, and EA agents. They learn advanced combat skills, infiltration, intelligence, marksmanship, medicine, stealth, survival, tactics, along with many other skills.

Throughout both focused education systems, requirements are to be met and evaluations are to be passed. Those that fail are neutralized. By the age of 18, a series of final tests must be passed. These are usually scenarios that range from successful infiltration and exertion to crossing difficult terrain and living off the land. From birth to completion, only 1 in a 100 clones complete the programming and training. Once completed, the clone is marked as a Ghost.

GHOST Programming Levels [6]

ALPHA: Regarded as "general" or regular programming within the base control personality; characterized by extremely pronounced memory retention, along with substantially increased physical strength and visual acuity. Alpha programming is accomplished through deliberately subdividing the victims personality which, in essence, causes a left brain-right brain division, allowing for a programmed union of L and R through neuron pathway stimulation.

BETA: Referred to as "sexual" programming. This programming eliminates all possible learned moral convictions and stimulates the primitive sexual instinct, devoid of inhibitions.

DELTA: This is known as "killer" programming, originally developed for training special agents or elite soldiers (i.e. EA, Rangers, SEALs, etc.) in covert operations. Optimal adrenal output and controlled aggression is evident. Subjects are devoid of fear; very systematic in carrying out their assignment. Self-destruct or suicide instructions are layered in at this level.

GAMMA: A form of system protection is through "deception" programming, which elicits misinformation and misdirection. This level is intertwined with theology and tends to regenerate itself at a later time if inappropriately activated.

THETA: Considered to the "psychic" programming. Various forms of electronic mind control systems were developed and introduced, namely, bio-medical human telemetry devices (brain implants), directed-energy lasers using microwaves and/or electromagnetics. It is reported these are used in conjunction with highly-advanced computers and sophisticated satellite tracking systems.

OMEGA: A "self-destruct" form of programming, also known as "Code Red." The corresponding behaviors include suicidal tendencies and/or self-mutilation. This program is generally activated when the victim/survivor begins therapy or interrogation and too much memory is being recovered.

Hmm, clones now? Interesting. Looks like they are not bringing in orphans anymore.